For the Love of Coffee

I can’t believe I just said the D-word. But it’s true. I’m one of those people. One of the ones who drink coffee for the taste of it, not it’s caffeine benefits. Or at least… not ONLY.

However.. one can’t just go chugging coffee at nine o’clock at night just because the taste buds have a craving!

Which leads me back to the decaf coffee. I’m thinking about keeping decaf on hand so I can drink coffee later in the day but not stay up all night.

I’m just wondering.. does that make me MORE or LESS of an addict??

Wouldn’t it be neat if the answer to the search for a perfect fuel source could be found in coffee? Maybe it can.

One group of students at the University of Missouri is experimenting with coffee grinds in an effort to process the oil from them into a biodiesel. Imagine a brighter future where we all do our part by drinking our cuppa joe every morning - or two or three or four- and that in turn keeps our cars running!

Wouldn’t that be cool? WHAT - one can dream, right? =)

You can drink coffee. You can eat coffee. You can smell coffee.

And now you can BATHE IN COFFEE.

Oh sweet heaven.

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My coffee pot is on the fritz. =(

The FRITZ. As in, I push “start” and it starts and then it stops a few minutes later with several cups of water in the reservoir. So I push start again and it processes some more of the water and then it stops again. Still not finished. Around and round we go — and I’m not liking having to wait that long and go through that much trouble to get to my coffee.

Which is sad because I haven’t had this one that long and my previous pot (a Gevalia Kaffe pot) lasted 12 years!!

So then I checked out Gevalia’s Spring Clearance section.

OH MY.

I’m seriously thinking about replacing the fritzy one with either the 12 cup or the 4 cup coffee maker.. I can’t decide. I CAN drink 12 cups of coffee a day but do I NEED TO?? Um, no. I have company that drinks coffee so rarely that I may go with the 4 cup.

And did you see the Blueberry Creme coffee on clearance, too? That sounds like a definite “Must Try.” My regular coffee order is coming out of this paycheck so I’m going to have to wait until the next one. (And hope that things are still on clearance.) If they’re NOT.. I’ve learned there’s an ongoing 20% off promotion while digging around in my affiliate dashboard!!

To earn a 20% off discount, simply click this link >> Get 20% Off Your Entire Gevalia Order!

So should I get the 12 cup (29.97) or the 4 cup (17.97) Hmmm…

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Eggnog. Coffee. Two great beverages in life. Could this be the best flavor combination ever? Or a really bad idea??

I’ll admit I really wasn’t sure which way it would go, when my grandmother gave me a free bottle of CoffeMate Eggnog creamer last month. (The eggnog flavor is one of their seasonal flavors that’s only available during certain times of the year.) So it was with a big of skepticism and a smidge of anticipation that I opened it up and gave it a whirl that first time. How bad could it be?

I’ll be honest - it wasn’t great. That first cup of coffee, I added waaaaay too much coffee creamer for that strong of a flavor. I didn’t realize how potent it was going to be. And though I love the flavor of eggnog, the truth is that the eggnog flavor was buried under something almost woody. It was almost like the flavor was “Christmas tree with a hint of eggnog.” Truly.

Never one to give in easily (especially when it comes to eggnog) I gave it another try the next day. I used half the amount I did the day before. Better. Much. But still piney. (It may have been cinnamon? But it was more like: “here, use this pine branch as your stir stick.”)

Now don’t get me wrong… I really wanted this to work. What can I say? I like eggnog. I gave it a third shot, and I used even less. The woody flavor was tolerable, but the eggnog flavor wasn’t as strong as I’d have liked. Still, it wasn’t bad.

Actually, it was good enough that I used the entire bottle. In the end though, I’d have to say that I probably wouldn’t spend my money on it in the future. (Not unless they came out with an improved version.) Especially since there are other flavors I like so much better.

However, if you like woody, earthy flavors (I don’t) you might actually love it!

Not wanting to leave you with a bad taste in your mouth… did you know that you can print CoffeeMate coupons directly from their site? It’s true. To save money on any flavor you like, check out the CoffeeMate website!

Can you believe it? I’m blogging here. I know, you probably thought I’d abandoned it. Truth be told, I was just putting it off because I needed to add a disclosure page. And there were the holidays and then there were the post holidays, and then there was… huh, I guess after that I was just putting it off.

SOOO… it’s back. And with some changes. (More than the disclosure page.) I removed Twitter Tools — the thing that tweeted my posts and posted my tweets. It was annoying me and one of the reasons I wasn’t blogging or tweeting. Bye bye, Twitter Tools and good riddance!

I have a new plan, a new vision for this blog, and hopefully that plan (executed) will turn this into an actual decent blog rather than just a collection of junk.

So. Good things to come in the near future. For now, I leave you with this Etsy find:

Coffee Bracelet by Wired Whimsy

Coffee jewelry! I think I need me some of that. =)